>From the continuing saga of getting debian on my Sparc 5.
I ran into a problem. 8) I did the install like I would on an intel. It has a single 2 gig drive, 64 meg ram. I partitioned the drive like this: 1st partition: 30 meg /boot 2nd partition: 128 meg swap 3rd partition: the rest for / As far as I could tell, the install went ok. However, after initial installation, it wants to reboot. On reboot, it won't load the image. (Claims an "unbootable" file) I attempt to point it at it by doing a "boot disk3:a" which seems to be the appropriate things to do as far as I can tell. It gives me the following (forgive mistakes as I'm hand copying this). == Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd#3,0:a File and args: SILO Buggy old PROMs don't allow reading past 1GB from start of the disk. Send complains to SMCC Read error on block 294916 Cannot find /etc/silo.conf (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) Couldn't load /etc/silo.conf No config file loaded, you can boot just from this command line Type [prompath;]part/parth_to_image [parameters] on the prompt E.g. /iommusbus/espdma/esp/sd@3,0;4/vmlinux root=/dev/sda4 or 2/vmlinux.live (to load vmlinux.live from 2nd partition of boot disk) == I tried several combinations of the above combinations, with no luck. Any suggestions? Forgive my ignorance with the sparc platform and many thanks in advance. -- "I have tact. I just choose not to use it." -Ben Scott Cole Tuininga Lead Developer Code Energy, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x43E5755D ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
